An insider's view of what is really happening in the Harris County Criminal Courts

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Clarence, Meet Snookems

In part of the Chroniclewrite up this morning, Alan Bernstein notes that the shots are already being fired across the bow between Lykos and Bradford. Bradford fired the first shots, but it wasn't anything outrageous.

What makes the article so damn funny is Lykos' response:

"I am very disappointed in Mr. Bradford," Lykos said. "I was hoping we could run an issue-oriented campaign."I nearly spit my coffee out on the computer when I read that.

The Queen of Mean has been dodging the issues since January to take personal shots at Kelly Siegler and the ADAs, but now she suddenly wants to tackle them with Bradford.

And it's worth noting that Bradford hasn't called the ADAs a bunch of drunken racists, like Lykos gladly did. I wouldn't be too surprised to see a lot of the ADAs getting behind his candidacy now.

Whether it was no confidence or not, it is clear that having the "backing of law enforcement" meant nothing to the voters.

What is clear, however, is Sielger misjudged those voters. The voters are obviously wanting some huge changes. She may be able to connect with jurors, but she couldn't do so with the voters.

Could that be because the demographics of Harris COunty are changing rapidly as well?

Siegler and a lot of those bureau chiefs probably need to start fine tuning those resumes. Whether it's Lykos or Bradford, a new day is coming and it is unlikely the exisitng management staff will be around by this time next year.

Lykos and her followers are absolutely deluding themselves if they think that SHE is the one who defeated Kelly Siegler.

Kelly beat her to the tune of 9,000 votes in the March 4th election and she lost to her by 2,000 on April 8th. I know how much Lykos enjoys her math, but if you add up the total votes, Kelly still generated a total of 7,000 more votes than Snookems ever received.

And, sadly, it was the one prediction that I've made that seems to have come true.

I'm not silly or whistful enough to spend a lot of time whining about how the election process wasn't fair.

It was fair, it just sucks.

However, if you do look at the raw numbers the C.O. Bradford got through a very energetic Democratic primary, the argument of who-beat-who in the Republican Primary may end up being massively irrelevant.

Currently, the Harris County DAs Office rewards racism and retaliates against those who would stand against it. To have integrity, to be ethical, one must leave that office. You would think that those traits would be exactly what the state of Texas would want in their employees; after all, aren't they supposedly the voice of the victims? So sad. Yet factually and honestly true.

Anon 1:49,I'd really be curious as to what you base your comment on, because I couldn't disagree with you more. Perhaps you should do a little more research before you just go with bombastic statements that you can't substantiate.

About Me

I practice criminal law and criminal law only. I've been involved in the criminal justice system since I was in college, and I've been practicing in Houston for over 17 years.
Most people never have to come down to the Harris County Criminal Justice Center unless they have jury duty. This blog is meant to give the Outsider an inside view.
These are just my opinions. The opinions of the Commenters are also just their opinions and I don't endorse them. But (within reason), I want everybody to be able to have a forum to say what they want to say.